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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 50 through.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Grant described the complicated maneuvering it took to establish a siege of ______________.
(a) Strongsville.
(b) Petersburg.
(c) St. Petersburg.
(d) Philiipsburg.

2. The following May, Grant moved to Galena, Illinois, where he began working as what in his father's store?
(a) A clerk.
(b) A blacksmith.
(c) A goldsmith.
(d) A cobbler.

3. Who was Nicholas P. Trist?
(a) A Christian missionary who translated during the peace treaty.
(b) A U.S. representative charged with negotiating a peace treaty.
(c) A U.S. soldier who was a POW in Mexico.
(d) A U.S. civilian who risked his life to get important information to Grant.

4. Eventually, Grant was ordered to San Francisco. When Grant's uniform first arrived, he put it on and went out in public. Why?
(a) He was apparently seeking acclaim for his military service.
(b) He was hoping to encourage others to join the military.
(c) He had no other clothes to wear.
(d) He was promoting attending West Point.

5. Grant noted after the surrender of Vicksburg that the men taken prisoner did what regarding the Union Army?
(a) They begged them to let them go free.
(b) They ignored them.
(c) They talked and mingled with them.
(d) They teased and taunted them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Two days later, Grant set up a military trap with several troops apparently exposed to attack, hoping what?

2. In Chapter 17, states continued to secede from the Union and the Civil War broke out in ________ of 1861.

3. Grant believed that "a _______________ advance to Atlanta, to Vicksburg, or to any other desired point south" would have been possible, but the advantage was not pressed.

4. In Chapter 18, Grant left Galena as commander of the _______ Regiment.

5. Grant said that once the city fell, it seemed that long-term occupation would be _____________.

(see the answer key)

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